<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** First Call for Papers, Tutorial and Workshop Proposals ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Computing (UCC 2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015" class="">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">CONTEXT AND SCOPE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">that are commoditized and delivered analogous to traditional utilities such as</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">are growing at a tremendous rate, and it is essential to understand how to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">UCC 2015, to be held in Cyprus, will happen as Cloud providers worldwide</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">add new services and increase Cloud utility at an accelerated pace, and Cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">service users explore new usage modes.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">This will be the 8th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">& UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Germany (UCC2013), and London, UK (UCC 2014).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">engineering, and commercial deployment.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Big Data and Analytics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> pricing and service models</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Policy languages and Programming models</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Utility driven model and mechanisms for Cloud federations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Autonomic techniques for Clouds and Cloud applications</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Utility-driven platforms for Clouds</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> federated, aggregated</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> services at all layers (XaaS)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Virtualization technologies and other enablers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Economic models and scenarios of use</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> models and monitoring</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> and business</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction, especially in Utility contexts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">papers. Further details as well as submission guidelines are available at the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">conference website and below.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">figures, tables, and references.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Manuscripts must be received by <span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">July 03, 2015</b></span>. All manuscripts will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Chairs at the email addressed below for further information or clarification.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Notification of review decisions will be mailed by August 21, 2015. Camera</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">-ready papers are due by September 21, 2015. Published proceedings will</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">be available at the conference.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">SPECIAL ISSUES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">version to the a number of top quality journals. Papers will be selected based</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">on their reviewers' scores and appropriateness to a journal's theme. All</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">conference webpage.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">TUTORIAL PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Each tutorial proposal must contain the following:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Title.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Name and Affiliation of the Speaker(s).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Abstract (one paragraph, 200 words max., including previous experience</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> with such tutorials).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Intended Audience (one paragraph) and prerequisites: Describe the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> background assumed of tutorial attendees (i.e. beginner, intermediate,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> advanced), and any requirements needed (e.g. bring own laptop). </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Learning Outcome (one paragraph): Describe the benefit, knowledge or</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> skill that will be gained by attendees.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Description (no more than 2 pages): A statement giving clear motivation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> /justification for the topic to be presented at UCC 2015 and a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> comprehensive outline of the proposed content.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Statement on if this tutorial has been given before and if so how this</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> presentation will be different.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Materials (one paragraph): A description of materials to be provided to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> attendees on the conference website – course slides, annotated</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> bibliography, code snippets, etc. NOTE: the materials themselves do not</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> need to be provided in the proposal.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Bio-sketch: A single paragraph bio-sketch per tutorial presenter.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Requested tutorial length (preferably half-a-day).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> tutorial chairs by the 3rd of July, 2015.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">RESPONSIBILITIES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Materials for the tutorial must be emailed by the 13th of November 2015 at</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the latest. The UCC 2015 Conference Organizing Committee will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">responsible for the following:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the tutorial.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• In conjunction with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Providing copies of the tutorial materials to attendees.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">should contain the following information:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> be held in 2015.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> proposed technical program committee. This committee should consist</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> of at least 10 people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> addressed and preferably not more than two members of the same</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> institution.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• A description of the qualifications of the organizers (who would be the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> Workshop Chairs) with respect to organizing this workshop. This can</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> include papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> organization, and other relevant information.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> workshop chairs by the 8th of May, 2015.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">RESPONSIBILITIES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> workshop. The URL should be sent to the UCC Workshops chairs. The call</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the Cloud,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing community. It should mention that</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> and that all workshop participants must pay the UCC 2015 workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> day or conference registration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> registration of at least one author requires the full (non-student, non-</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> workshop) rate.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> IEEE format). It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to ensure</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> that this page limit has been adhered to. Additional pages may be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> purchased (in some circumstances) subject to approval by the proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> chairs.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Provide a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> and program.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. The publication</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> of proceedings will be by the IEEE in the same volume as the main</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> conference. The acceptance notification (by workshop chairs) therefore</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> should be the same as the conference paper acceptance notification (i.e. the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> dates should be the same). All other details can be up to workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> organizers to set.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> proceedings.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">IMPORTANT NOTE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submissions) the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">UCC 2015 Organizing Committee may decide to merge that workshop with</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large community.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there are not enough</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">submissions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">taken to ensure that the accepted papers are of high quality. All papers must</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">be reviewed by an International Technical Program Committee with a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">minimum of 3 reviews per paper. The workshop organizers should also try</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">to observe an acceptance rate that is no higher than 50%.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Unless indicated on the UCC website, there will be no travel support and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">no registration discounts for authors and organizers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and should not</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">use the names of these organisations in their titles.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The UCC 2015 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">following:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Providing a link to a workshop's local page.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""> time.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Providing copies of the workshop proceedings to attendees.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Tutorial proposals due: 03 July, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification of tutorial proposals: 14 August, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Final description of accepted proposals: 14 September, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Tutorial slides due: 13 November, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification of workshop proposals: 22 May 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Paper submissions due: 03 July, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Early and author registration deadline: 21 September, 2015</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">COMMITTEES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">General Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Program Committee Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (parashar AT <a href="http://rutgers.edu" class="">rutgers.edu</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK (ranaof AT <a href="http://cardiff.ac.uk" class="">cardiff.ac.uk</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Standards/Plug-fest Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA & Open Grid Forum</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshops Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ilkay Altintas, SDSC, USA (altintas AT <a href="http://sdsc.edu" class="">sdsc.edu</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany (josef.spillner AT <a href="http://tu-dresden.de" class="">tu-dresden.de</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Tutorials Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ewa Deelman, USC, USA (deelman AT <a href="http://isi.edu" class="">isi.edu</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Rafael Tolosana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt AT <a href="http://unizar.es" class="">unizar.es</a>)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Posters Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">PhD Symposium Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Kenneth Johnson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Cloud Challenge 2015 Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Industry Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Proceedings Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• George Palis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Publicity Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>